「農夫關注週」 向農夫們致敬 Credit to Farmers

This is Farmworker Awareness Week but how many of us are aware of the critical role of farmworkers much less aware that there’s even a week dedicated to them? We eat 280 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables a day—from supermarkets, restaurants, cafeterias and fast food establishments. And all of it is picked by hand.

Ironically these workers are among the most abused and poorly paid people in the nation. As longterm farmworker advocate Eva Longoria says, “This is not an immigration issue. This is a human rights issue.”

“… farm workers face abuses from verbal threats to physical violence and modern-day slavery. There are more than 10,000 slaves working in the fields in the United States Today…raising wages will end exploitation, the cost: in some cases, just a penny more per pound…” quoted from FOOD CHAINS

Farmers, too, are humans.

This week, let’s take a moment to reflect on the hands that feed us, to recognize the contribution of farmworkers to our well-being, and to recognize that that which sustains us leads to their abuse. And that we can change this. Support farmworkers rights and groups like the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They are fighting to ensure their future, which, is, in fact, our future.